Another shot from Borneo of a cracking endemic bird in the form of a Borneon Forktail. These birds pretty much replace the role of our Dipper and spend their time hopping from rock to rock in search of small invertebrates. The only problem is due to living in deep forest is the amount of light reaching their habitat. Believe it or not, this was taken around 3pm in the afternoon in cloudless skies!
The specs are as follows:
Canon 1D IV
Canon 500mm F4 L with 1.4x tc
ISO 1000
1/20sec @ f/5.6
-1 exp comp (to try and increase shutter speed)
Mirror lock up and 2sec timer on tripod.
Processing in LR3 beta2 and CS3
Question for the techies!
Due to the shade in here, is there any way I could have taken better pictures or is the best I could achieve given the circumstances? Should I have increased the ISO to 2000 (giving me an extra stop of light to play with) and overexposing the image slightly to give more detail in post processing rather than underexposing and having to brighten the image in PP and losing some detail?
I tried using flash but due to shooting through a wall of messy branches on the bank (I managed to find a small gap where this image was taken) I was getting massive reflectance off the branches just in front of the lens so decided not to use it in the end.
Any advice and criticism of the image is more than welcome.
Just a touch central for my taste and the brightness of the stone distracts a little from the darker bird (perhaps crop a little more of it out). What a great little bird though.
If the 1D IV is anything like the 7D then overexposing at higher ISO's and drawing back the exposure retains far more detail than recovering the shadows. The 1D IV probably gives good full frame results at ISO2000 so worth a try I reckon.
I think it's all down to what you want the image for, iso 1000 is fine at 100% but any higher i think comes down very much to what you're prepared to settle for and what you want to do with the final image.
I think I would have taken out the highlights in the top right and just under the tail.
Discussion
3 repliesAnother shot from Borneo of a cracking endemic bird in the form of a Borneon Forktail. These birds pretty much replace the role of our Dipper and spend their time hopping from rock to rock in search of small invertebrates. The only problem is due to living in deep forest is the amount of light reaching their habitat. Believe it or not, this was taken around 3pm in the afternoon in cloudless skies!
The specs are as follows:
Canon 1D IV
Canon 500mm F4 L with 1.4x tc
ISO 1000
1/20sec @ f/5.6
-1 exp comp (to try and increase shutter speed)
Mirror lock up and 2sec timer on tripod.
Processing in LR3 beta2 and CS3
Question for the techies!
Due to the shade in here, is there any way I could have taken better pictures or is the best I could achieve given the circumstances? Should I have increased the ISO to 2000 (giving me an extra stop of light to play with) and overexposing the image slightly to give more detail in post processing rather than underexposing and having to brighten the image in PP and losing some detail?
I tried using flash but due to shooting through a wall of messy branches on the bank (I managed to find a small gap where this image was taken) I was getting massive reflectance off the branches just in front of the lens so decided not to use it in the end.
Any advice and criticism of the image is more than welcome.
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards
Ian
If the 1D IV is anything like the 7D then overexposing at higher ISO's and drawing back the exposure retains far more detail than recovering the shadows. The 1D IV probably gives good full frame results at ISO2000 so worth a try I reckon.
I think I would have taken out the highlights in the top right and just under the tail.